Sunday, November 6, 2016 — Two Days

In two days we will final­ly find out what degree of pow­er the Racism, Rape and Trea­son Par­ty will exer­cise in the Unit­ed States for the next four years. It’s plain that they will not win the Pres­i­den­cy — patri­ot­ic Amer­i­cans have sensed an immi­nent threat to the coun­try, and are turn­ing out in record num­bers to defend it — but what real­ly mat­ters is whether or not the RR&T (Repub­li­can) Par­ty will retain con­trol of the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. A gen­er­a­tion of sys­tem­at­ic vot­er sup­pres­sion and dis­trict ger­ry­man­der­ing has allowed the Repub­li­cans to con­trol the House, repeat­ed­ly hold­ing the Amer­i­can peo­ple to ran­som and obstruct­ing any kind of ratio­nal admin­is­tra­tion. If they retain this pow­er, there will be four years of relent­less obstruc­tion of the kind that Amer­i­cans have become accus­tomed to in the last eight years. Repub­li­cans have no claim to being patri­ots: the well-being of the Amer­i­can peo­ple will always be the last thing they are con­cerned with. They are dri­ven by a total­i­tar­i­an ide­ol­o­gy that has fused old­er ele­ments orig­i­nat­ing in Amer­i­ca with Com­mu­nism and Fas­cism import­ed from Europe. Those who delude them­selves into think­ing that Don­ald Trump is some sort of aber­ra­tion in his par­ty need to wake up. Trump is the nat­ur­al, log­i­cal and inevitable con­se­quence of Con­ser­v­a­tive ide­ol­o­gy in exact­ly the same way that Stal­in was the nat­ur­al, log­i­cal and inevitable con­se­quence of Marx­ist ide­ol­o­gy. Every­thing that Trump has done in this elec­tion is some­thing that the Repub­li­can Par­ty has done before, every slo­gan he shouts and every slimy tac­tic he employs are straight out of the long-term Repub­li­can play­book. Trump will prob­a­bly not suc­ceed in his dream of destroy­ing Amer­i­ca and turn­ing it into a sleazy, Putin-KGB style dic­ta­tor­ship, but the Repub­li­can Par­ty will not stop their ide­o­log­i­cal cru­sade with his fail­ure, and their ambi­tion is exact­ly the same as Trump’s. They will keep on try­ing. Amer­i­cans will not be safe from the specter of tyran­ny until the Repub­li­can Par­ty is com­plete­ly erased from their lives.

This does not mean that the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty is any­thing admirable. It has absorbed most of the creepy ele­ments of Con­ser­v­a­tive ide­ol­o­gy. The Clin­ton admin­is­tra­tion of the 1990s adopt­ed most of Con­ser­v­a­tive crack­pot eco­nom­ic the­o­ry. Its repeal of the Glass-Stea­gall Act and pass­ing of the Com­mod­i­ty Futures Mod­ern­iza­tion Act laid the ground­work for the sub­se­quent Repub­li­can glob­al reces­sion. Hilary Clin­ton is not the demon she is por­trayed as, but she clear­ly rep­re­sents the oli­garchi­cal and Con­ser­v­a­tive ele­ments of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty, and can­not be depend­ed on to do any­thing to lessen the pow­er of the rich, which is the can­cer eat­ing away at Amer­i­ca. But there is a great dif­fer­ence between a cor­rupt, aging aris­to­crat­ic regime and a dynam­ic total­i­tar­i­an move­ment. The Romanov monar­chy and the shaky Weimar Repub­lic were not any­thing to boast of, but the Com­mu­nist and Nation­al Social­ist dic­ta­tor­ships that dis­placed them were a thou­sand times more hor­ri­ble. The Repub­li­can Par­ty embraces and pro­motes such a men­ac­ing total­i­tar­i­an ide­ol­o­gy, and has been work­ing away dili­gent­ly to impose it on Amer­i­ca. Like all such ide­olo­gies, Con­ser­vatism chan­nels the ener­gies and resent­ments of dis­parate groups, gives them scape­goats to hate, and employs a mish-mosh of con­tra­dic­to­ry slo­gans, pro­pa­gan­da lies, and pseu­do-intel­lec­tu­al argu­ments that can be deployed or negat­ed at any time. But the under­ly­ing prin­ci­ple is straight­for­ward: if the Leader enters the room, get down on your hands and knees and suck his dick. There is real­ly noth­ing else to it. View­ing any ten minute seg­ment of a Trump ral­ly makes this per­fect­ly clear. It’s an ide­ol­o­gy for sniv­el­ling cow­ards. But there are a lot of sniv­el­ling cow­ards out there.

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